Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

rendered banquet by the Elks at Omaha
Neb., on the night of the 24th.
THE passengers who arrived on the
steamship Alesia, which was found to
have cholera on board, will be kept in
strict quarantine until all danger of in
fection is past.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD SAYS in re
lation to the university he is so lavishly
endowing: SIT will be built with sole
regard to the poor; no rich mans son or
daughter will want to come there. This
institution will absorb my wealth and be
monument to the memory of my son.
The poor alone will be welcome; and it
will not be built for the rich"
A DESTRUCTIVE forest fire was reported
raging at Foley, Mimi, on the 24th.
The death order to the sheriff of Cook
County, ILL.,, in the case Of the condemned
Anarchists was handed down by the Su-
preme Court on the 24th and was placed
in the hands of Sheriff Matson.
THE sovereign Grand Lodge I. o. 0. F.,
concluded its work on the oath, at Denver,
Col, and adjourned sine die. Many of the
delegates went on prearranged excur-
sions.
MRS. SMITH, aged sixty-five years, while
walking along the road at Shoals, Ind, on
the oath, stopped to light her pipe, when
her clothes caught fire, and the poor
woman was burned to a crisp.
A NUMBER of prominent steamship Of
ficials and others in New York are agitat-
ing the question of establishing naval
reserve. The Secretary of the Navy is to
be consulted by committee of ten as to
the furtherance of the project.
A NEW Indian alarm has broken out in
Arizona.
Two deaths occurred from cholera at
New York on the 25th.
SNOW fell north of Farming ton, Me-, on
the 25th, covering the top of the Old Blue
and other mountains.
THE railway mileage Of the Presidents
Western and Southern trip will reach al
most 4,50Q, and will cost him nearly
$4,000.
SOME very important questions have
been selected for consideration Of the
Evangelical Alliance, soon meet in Wash
ington.
J. W. CoTTELL, somewhat famous pub
lie aud political figure in Iowa, died on
the 25th, near Des Moines, from injuries re-
ceived recently in an accident.
FIELD MAEsu.1D flsersst+tsse- .IoHx OF,
Austria has been suspended from the'
army. No reason is given. The suspen-
sion has caused great surprise, the Arch
duke being considered one Of the ablest
generals in the army.
AT Belfast, ireland, on the oath, a mob
stoned the police and wrecked the inn at
which the police are quartered. The po-
lice, after being strongly reinforced, dis
persed the crowd and put them to rout.
T oo in
Glare, and were unlnolested.
2. A. CROSBY, treasurer of the Lasters'
Protective Union fair at Dover, N. H., a
married man, absconded on the oath with
the fair receipts, amounting to 5000, and
was accompanied by Mrs. Emma Sawyer
Lord. He leaves an aged mother, a
broken hearted wife and two children to
suffer for his evil doings. He left them
penniless.
THE Union Coal Company at Shamokin,
Pa, have promulgated an agreement
whereby their miners will receive eight
per cent. advance and laborers fifteen per
cent. and other minor concessions. Their
colieries resumed on the 26th. The Min
eral Mining Company and their strikers
have not vet reached settlement. All
other coal companies are working.
tend the G. A. r. encampment at st.
Louis.
ONE of the officers of the army of the
Amoer of Afghanistan is said to have fed
and Joined Ayoub Kahn, taking with him
2, coo men.
TRAVEL is delayed on the Atlantic &
Pacific railroad by washout west OF
Albuquerque, n. III.
SERIOUS trouble is reported with the
Indians on the San Carlos reservation in
Arizona.
MUCH excitement prevails in Paris over
the shooting of Frenchmen on the 9th by
German officials on the Franco. German
frontier.
A MEMBER of the Nova Scotia House of
Commons has been expelled on his admis-
sion that his election was secured by
bribery.
PREMIER, promising young race horse,
dropped dead on the track in front OF the
judges stand, at Louisville, KY, on the
25th after hard race.
THE Americas cup yacht race was to
come off on the 2Ith. The Volunteer and
the Thistle were both ready for the con-
test, wind and weather being propitious.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Colt,
at Boston, dismissed the Government suit
against the Bell Telephons Company for
annulment of patents.
MISS PHOEBE C0UzINS has been appoint
ed bv Justice Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court, United States Marshal al
interim for the Eastern district of Mis-
souri,.
RUSSIAN educational officials have dis
covered that almost an entire province
near st. Petersburg has become hot bed
of nihilism, which doctrine is rapidly
spreading in the public schools
DIR. E. HARTMAN, young and promls-
ing physician of Red Oak, Ia, committed
suicide at that place on the 10th by taking
an ounce of aconite. No cause assigned.
THE Roumanian Government has ex-
peeled from its territory the Bulgarian agi-
tator Veitchoff, for publishing libelous
attack upon Prince Ferdinand.
THE international hygienic congress
opened on the 26th at Vienna.
THE jury in the case of Dan Lyons, who
was tried at New York for killing Joseph
Quinn, the athlete, returned a verdict on
the 2eth of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
AT Youngstown, o., on the 28sh, while
James McKeowa was driving Oberiin, tho